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Informing the Debate About Sexual Assault in the Military Services: Is the Department of Defense Its Own Worst Enemy? Lisa M GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works Faculty Scholarship 2014 Informing the Debate About Sexual Assault in the Military Services: Is the Department of Defense its Own Worst Enemy? Lisa M. Schenck George Washington University Law School, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarship.law.gwu.edu/faculty_publications Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, Vol. 11, p. 579, 2014 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Faculty Scholarship at Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works by an authorized administrator of Scholarly Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. GW Law School Public Law and Legal Theory Paper No. 2014-27 GW Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2014-27 Informing the Debate About Sexual Assault in the Military Services: Is the Department of Defense Its Own Worst Enemy? Lisa M. Schenck 2014 11 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 579 This paper can be downloaded free of charge from the Social Science Research Net- work: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2446203 Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2446203 Informing the Debate About Sexual Assault in the Military Services: Is the Department of Defense Its Own Worst Enemy? Lisa M. Schenck [A] female soldier in Iraq is more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire.1 —Representative Jane Harmon, March 8, 2010 Sexual assault . strikes at the core of the military. “This department may be nearing a stage where the frequency of this crime and the perception that there is tolerance of it could very well undermine our ability to effectively carry out the mission and to recruit and retain the good people we need,” [Secretary of Defense] Hagel said. Pentagon estimates of how many troops are sexually assaulted show the numbers increased by 35% since 2010, from 19,300 service members believed to be victims that year to 26,000 in 2012, according to a Defense Department survey released Tuesday . .2 —Secretary of Defense Hagel, May 7, 2013 You are all familiar with the troubling statistics the Department of Defense (DoD) estimates that there are about 19,000 rapes a year in our military forces. That’s over fifty a day, and that is unacceptable. A [s]olider today, even in a time of war, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Professorial Lecturer in Law, Senior Adviser to the National Security Law LL.M. Program, The George Washington University Law School. The author is a retired colonel from the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps who served as a Senior Judge, and previously, Associate Judge, on the U.S. Army Court of Criminal Appeals (2002–2008); upon retirement, she served as the Senior Adviser to the Defense Task Force on Sexual Assault in the Military Services (2008–2009). B.A., Providence College; M.P.A., Fairleigh Dickinson University; J.D., Notre Dame Law School; LL.M., The Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School; LL.M., Yale Law School; J.S.D., Yale Law School. This Article reflects the personal opinion of the author and does not represent the views of the University, Law School, Department of Defense, or Department of the Army. The author would like to thank Andrew Dean, Julie Dickerson, and Michelle Ross, dedicated research assistants, for their assistance and support. Copyright © 2014 by Lisa M. Schenck. 1 Nancy Gibb, Sexual Assaults on Female Soldiers: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, TIME, (Mar. 8, 2010), http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1968110,00.html, (quoting Representative Jane Harman); see also, Megan Chuchmach, Female Soldiers More Likely to Be Raped than Killed in Action, Says Rep., ABC NEWS (Sep. 8, 2008), http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5760295&page=1. 2 Gregg Zoroya & Tom Vanden Brook, Report Comes On the Heels of Air Force Chief Sexual Assault Prevention Officer’s Arrest for Allegedly Groping a Woman, USA TODAY (May 7, 2013), http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/05/07/military-sexual-assaults/2140835/. 579 Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2446203 580 OHIO STATE JOURNAL OF CRIMINAL LAW [Vol 11:2 is more likely to be sexually assaulted than to be killed or wounded by hostile forces. And yet we also know that less than twenty percent of sexual assaults are reported. Why is that? It is because victims do not believe they will get justice, and criminals do not believe they will be punished. I know that we have confirmed these numbers through countless surveys, studies and anecdotal evidence.3 — Representative Loretta Sanchez, 41st Hodson Lecture, April 30, 2013 “The bottom line is, I have no tolerance for this,” [President] Obama said in answer to a question about the survey. “If we find out somebody’s engaging in this stuff, they’ve got to be held accountable, prosecuted, stripped of their positions, court-martialed, fired, dishonorably discharged. Period.”4 — Commander-in-Chief, President Barack Obama, May 7, 2013 I. INTRODUCTION The quotes above depict the misperceptions of members of Congress, the Secretary of Defense, and the President, regarding the magnitude of sexual abuse in the military. The President and Secretary of Defense base their outrage on the DoD’s own extrapolation that 26,000 military service members were victims of sexual assault during Fiscal Year [FY] 2012. Other commentators further criticize how the military handles sexual assault cases, contending that the military justice process is less effective at holding perpetrators accountable than its civilian counterparts.5 3 Loretta Sanchez, The Forty-First Kenneth J. Hodson Lecture in Criminal Law, 218 MIL. L. REV. 265, 267–68 (2013) (citations omitted). 4 Jennifer Steinhauer, Sexual Assaults in Military Raise Alarm in Washington, THE NEW YORK TIMES, (May 7, 2013), http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/08/us/politics/pentagon-study-sees- sharp-rise-in-sexual-assaults.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0. 5 See Laurenne Wallman, Legislation Aims to Remove Rape Accusations from Military “Chain of Command”, THE DAILY CALLER (Nov. 11, 2011), http://dailycaller.com/2011/11/18/legislation-aims-to-remove-rape-accusations-from-military-chain- of-command/ (“just eight percent of sexual assailants in the military were referred to military court, compared with 40 percent of similar offenders prosecuted in the civilian justice system.”); Beth Scott, STOP Act Aims to End Sexual Assault in the Military, AAUW (Apr. 24, 2013), http://www.aauw.org/article/stop-act-aims-to-end-sexual-assault-in-the-military/; but see Gail Heriot, Harassing the Military—There is No Sexual Assault Crisis, 18-41 THE WEEKLY STANDARD (July 8, 2013), http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/harassing-military_738058.html (“Prosecution rate comparisons are difficult, since civilian jurisdictions are not required to publish statistics. Even if they were, they would be of little use, since for service members, reporting a sexual assault to military authorities is as much like reporting it to an employer as it is like reporting it to the police. The statistics would not be comparable. Insofar as there is evidence, however, it suggests that the military is now more aggressive in prosecuting sexual assaults than civilian jurisdictions. For example, when a rape involving military personnel occurs off-post, civilian and military authorities both have jurisdiction. On those occasions in fiscal year 2011 on which the civilian jurisdiction took the lead, prosecution rates were 11 percent. In contrast, the military’s prosecution rate was 55 percent.”); see also infra note 205. Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2446203 2014 INFORMING THE DEBATE 581 Using inflammatory language and misleading statistics6 some attack the prosecution and conviction rates in the military services7 without realizing that 6 See, e.g., The Military’s Sexual Assault Epidemic, THE WEEK (Mar. 31, 2013), http://theweek.com/article/index/242066/the-militarys-sexual-assault-epidemic, stating: How rife is sexual crime in the services? It has become a grave concern, particularly as uniformed women take on more roles. Military sexual trauma, which encompasses everything from sexual harassment to rape, is now the leading cause of post-traumatic stress disorder among women in the U.S. military. Female soldiers today are 180 times more likely to be sexually assaulted by a fellow soldier than killed by an enemy. Sufferers often spiral downward into alcohol and substance abuse, depression, and homelessness. “It just pulls the skin off you,” said one former Army Reserve officer, who retreated to a mobile home deep in the woods after she was assaulted. But sexual abuse often goes unreported. In 2011, there were around 3,000 official cases of military sexual assault, but a report commissioned by then Defense Secretary Leon Panetta put the actual annual number at 19,000 or more. An anonymous survey of more than 1,100 women who served in Afghanistan and Iraq, conducted last year by the Department of Veterans Affairs, found that almost half said they had been sexually harassed, and nearly one quarter said they’d been sexually assaulted. What happens when an incident is reported? Too often, nothing at all. A shocking 92 percent of reported assaults never come before a military court. First responders frequently fail to collect forensic evidence of an assault within the 72-hour deadline stipulated by current guidelines, and more often than not, the victim’s superior decides against proceeding to court-martial anyway. Last year, two thirds of all reported cases were either summarily dismissed as unfounded, or resolved by the perpetrators simply being given extra duties or having their pay docked. Of the few defendants referred to court-martial, a tenth opt to resign instead: by admitting their guilt and accepting the perceived punishment of leaving the military, they can avoid prosecution—civilian or military—altogether.
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